The mission of Business Analytics (BA) is to extract the full value of organizational information to yield reliable insights and drive smarter, more cost-efficient decision making. But isolated platforms, proprietary tools and varying analytics strategies result in information that's incomplete, inaccessible and increasingly costly.

A centralized approach delivers enterprise-wide business information, with greatly improved cost efficiency. It allows organizations to eliminate up to 95% of the IT hardware needed to support BA, which drives down facilities and administration costs for rapid return on investment. The average overall IT savings of centralization topped 35% over 5 years.

View this multimedia presentation to see why IBM System z is the ideal platform for centralizing Business Analytics and Data Warehousing. Its breakthrough technologies provide the power and performance to meet the demands of ever-changing and challenging market dynamics—enabling you to more easily deliver against today’s aggressive business requirements, drive competitive advantage and increase business performance.